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Ultimate Webcam: Rent Time On A CCD Telescope

Posted by timothy on from the work-for-hire dept.

leighklotz writes "I saw an ad for this in Science News and visited the site: http://www.arnierosner.com offers CCD-based telescopes that you control, from his mountaintop in Arizona. $50 for an hour's tiem gets you started. Too bad I hadn't read this last week when Saturn's rings were at their peak." I bet this gives some entrepreneurial ideas ...

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  1. entrepreneurial ideas? by happystink · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    What ideas does this give people? To set up their own telescopes you mean, or to use these in some sort of enterprising way?

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  2. tiem by mindgam3r · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "$50 for an hour's tiem gets you started." gee maybe you should spend it on typing lessons!

  3. I'd aim that telecope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    right at my neighbor's bathroom window! c'mon guys you know that you were thinking the same...

  4. I'm going to use this to take a pic of urANUS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh wait i already did http://www.geocities.com/julielavine/julie2.jpg

  5. Re:Timmy Is Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, boobs touch YOU!